| (1) | The Committee for Spatial Information is hereby established. |
| (a) | One person to represent the Minister; |
| (b) | two persons in the full-time employ of the Department; |
| (c) | one person in the full-time employment of each of— |
| (i) | Statistics South Africa, as defined in section 1 of the Statistics Act, 1999 (Act No. 6 of 1999); |
| (ii) | the national department of Provincial and Local Government; and |
| (iii) | such other national departments of state identified by the Minister; |
| (d) | one person from each provincial government, in the full-time employ of such government; |
| (e) | two persons in the full-time employ of local municipalities, one of whom shall be from a municipality which is mainly rural in character and the other from a municipality which is mainly urban in character; |
| (f) | one person to represent the Council of Government Information Technology Officers; |
| (g) | one person to represent a professional association of persons involved in Geographic Information Science; |
| (h) | one person involved in the teaching or research of Geographic Information Science; |
| (i) | at least one person to represent the interests of public entities contemplated in Schedules 2 and 3 to the Public Finance Management Act, 1999 (Act No. 1 of 1999), that perform functions which support the objects of this Act; and |
| (3) | The Minister must, after calling for nominations from the public in the prescribed manner, and— |
| (a) | in respect of paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (2), after consultation with the Ministers, responsible for those departments; |
| (b) | in respect of paragraph (d) of subsection (2), after consultation with the Premiers of the respective provinces; and |
| (c) | in respect of paragraph (e) of subsection (2), after consultation with the Chairperson of the South African Local Government Association, |
appoint the members of the Committee and an alternate member for each such member.
| (4) | The Minister must appoint from among the members of the Committee a chairperson and a deputy chairperson. |
| (5) | When the chairperson is unable to perform the functions of that office, the deputy chairperson must perform those functions. |
| (6) | The Minister must, within 30 days from the date of appointment of the members of the Committee, publish the names of the appointees, the position held by each appointee to the Committee and the date of each appointment, by notice in the Gazette. |
| (7) | If a member dies or vacates his or her office before the expiry of his or her term of office, the Minister may, subject to subsection (2), appoint any person to fill the vacancy for the unexpired portion of the period for which such member was appointed. |
